Three Came Home
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 10th impression
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In the darkest years of the Second World War, American author Agnes Newton Keith found herself imprisoned alongside her husband and young son in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on the island of Borneo — and she documented every harrowing moment of it. Three Came Home is a raw, unflinching memoir that chronicles her years of captivity between 1941 and 1945, detailing the brutal realities of internment, the struggle to protect her child, and the extraordinary resilience required simply to survive. Keith writes with a clear-eyed honesty that refuses sentimentality, capturing both the cruelty of her captors and the unexpected moments of humanity that flickered within the wire. What elevates this account above a simple war narrative is Keith's remarkable literary gift — her prose is precise and luminous, transforming personal suffering into a universal testament to the endurance of the human spirit. The book stands as a significant document of the Pacific theatre's civilian experience, a perspective too often overshadowed by battlefield accounts. Illustrated with sketches by the author and Don Johnston, it presents an intimate, ground-level portrait of a world at war. For readers who believe they know the full story of the Second World War, Keith's testimony poses a quietly devastating question: how much has gone untold?
Author: Agnes Newton Keith
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, Michael Joseph
Genre: Biography
Edition: 10th impression
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
In the darkest years of the Second World War, American author Agnes Newton Keith found herself imprisoned alongside her husband and young son in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on the island of Borneo — and she documented every harrowing moment of it. Three Came Home is a raw, unflinching memoir that chronicles her years of captivity between 1941 and 1945, detailing the brutal realities of internment, the struggle to protect her child, and the extraordinary resilience required simply to survive. Keith writes with a clear-eyed honesty that refuses sentimentality, capturing both the cruelty of her captors and the unexpected moments of humanity that flickered within the wire. What elevates this account above a simple war narrative is Keith's remarkable literary gift — her prose is precise and luminous, transforming personal suffering into a universal testament to the endurance of the human spirit. The book stands as a significant document of the Pacific theatre's civilian experience, a perspective too often overshadowed by battlefield accounts. Illustrated with sketches by the author and Don Johnston, it presents an intimate, ground-level portrait of a world at war. For readers who believe they know the full story of the Second World War, Keith's testimony poses a quietly devastating question: how much has gone untold?